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Every year we see highly touted players rise and slide in the draft. Who are your candidates to possibly slide, or even make a pretty big jump based on what you know about the players to this point? Do you think Patrick will be able to hang to the #1 status all season or is his competition going to catch up to him?

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I think Patrick will retain his number one status... his biggest challenger is Liljegren. Its the classic franchise centre vs #1 defenceman argument. If we have seen anything over the years..... its this, unless the defenceman is clearly ahead (see Ekblad), teams will take the forward.... see RNH vs Larsson, Tavares vs Hedman, Stamkos vs Doughty, Strome vs Hanifin, MacKinnon vs Jones, etc.... etc....

As for a candidate to slide... if I knew that I wouldn't have him in my top 15 today, and then I'd say I told you so later.

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That doesn't bug me anywhere near as much as people discussing a 31 year old hockey player and saying he's too old now.

If you're reffering to Weber I don't think the main argument is that he IS too old, it's that he'll very likely be on the downswing sooner than the guy he was traded for. I think most reasonable people would agree that Weber has years left of good hockey.